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Airplane! (1980) Disaster type: Commercial airliner. Notable destruction: A airport terminal window. A disaster movie on helium, the Zucker brothers’ comedy classic throws absolutely everything ...
Jul 19, 2024 · 16. The Burning Sea. Norway’s been on a real disaster movie kick recently; since 2015’s The Wave Scandinavia’s been hit with The Quake (2018), had its people trapped in The Tunnel (2019 ...
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And now we’re ranking some of the best and worst disaster movies, from Certified Fresh to Fresh to Rotten movies, all ranging from earthquakes (San Andreas), asteroids (Deep Impact), tsunamis (The Impossible), airplanes (Airport), fires (The Towering Inferno), boats (Titanic), and just about everything mother nature can throw at us (2012).
- Is The Batman’s Ending Realistic?
- The Batman and The Climate Crisis
- Can New York Protect Itself from Sea Level Rise and Flooding?
As we see from a map in The Batman, seawalls surround the main downtown area of Gotham, which seems to serve as the fictional equivalent of Manhattan. In real life, there is no seawall around Manhattan — yet. “But things similar to that [seawall] have been proposed for the future to help protect Lower Manhattan from sea level rise,” Branco says. Af...
The threat of rain is overwhelming in The Batman — nearly every other scene features Batman fighting bad guys as a deluge of rain batters Gotham in the background. As it turns out, intense rainfall and flooding during storms are likely to increase in New York as a result of the climate crisis, which makes storms wetter. “We're not expecting a lot m...
As it turns out, seawalls might notactually be the best way to protect Gotham — or New York — from flooding. “It seems like a great idea until the day that the wall either gets a hole in it or gets blown up by the Riddler,” Branco says. Seawalls are controversial because they don’t just block rising seawater from the outside, but they could also tr...
According to The New York Times, 90% of the city of Rotterdam is below sea level. As ocean levels rise, the risk of flooding increases. As ocean levels rise, the risk of flooding increases. Like Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, the Dutch have built "water parks" that double as reservoirs for the swelling water levels in a project called Room for the River, as well as enormous ...
May 28, 2015 · Overall, such a quake would cause some $200 billion in damage, 50,000 injuries and 2,000 deaths, the researchers estimated. But “it’s not so much about dying in the earthquake. It’s about ...
May 10, 2021 · In this story the bad behaviour of a man named Goonyah caused the sea to flood the land and he then organised the people to stop it. In another, he led the people up a mountain to escape the water ...
